Over at the Writers At Cornell Blog, you'll find an interview I conducted today with poet Gabrielle Calvocaressi, author of the collection The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart. A recipient of the Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers, she has been both a Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. She lives in Los Angeles. We discussed the long, apelike shadow of Wallace Stevens, porno drive-ins, and what precisely a prose poem thinks it's supposed to be. Gabby is funny as hell, and gave a great reading this afternoon--stop by and give it a look.
In addition, The Litlab is really cooking, with new weird stuff from William Walsh, Sharma Shields, Evan Sobel, Tim Reynolds, Adalena Kavanagh, and Dana Koster.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
I've never witnessed anything so brilliant before. She's my new favorite super hero.
I think her book is pretty good, but I like the newer poems way better. The line "I love you / like Elvis loved pistols" was perhaps the best of the day...
That line combined with her reading style made it the best of my year
I liked her new stuff, but The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earheart is the best book of poetry I've read in a long time. I think I'll reserve judgment on the new book until I see it in print.
Post a Comment